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81: Michael Pollan | A Renaissance in the Forbidden Science of Psychedelics
The Jordan Harbinger Show
What's So Interesting About Psychedelics?
The experienced meditators mind while meditating looks a lot like someone on the psilocybin. The same network I was describing, the default mode network is deactivated in meditation. And that feeling of self or merging with your ego is common to both experiences even though they feel very different from each other. Some people get into a psychedelic state in ways that can be similar to prayer and/or starvation. People who cut off oxygen are essentially starving themselves by putting us into this little filmy curtain from everyday consciousness. William James said we've only just begun to understand all the different ways we can alter our consciousness.
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